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Deathworld
by Harry HarrisonDeathworld' is perhaps Harry Harrison's best known novel and is certainly the book that put him on the map. Jason dinAlt is a daring gambler. He uses his spotty psionic powers to give himself a slight edge in games of chance. After winning a large fortune at the tables, he flees for his life to Deathworld, the most dangerous planet ever colonized by human beings. He will soon discover that nothing is what it seems.
Deathworld: Deathworld Book 1 (Golden Age Masterworks)
by Harry HarrisonThe planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man.The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder.It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation.
Deathworld
by Harry HarrisonA gifted gambler fights to survive on a hostile planet in this classic novel from the creator of science fiction antihero the Stainless Steel Rat. The gravity is twice that of Earth. The weather is an unpredictable maelstrom. All species of life, both plant and animal, monstrous and microscopic, are lethal. And the environment is drenched with radioactivity. This is planet Pyrrus, where telepathically gifted gambler Jason dinAlt has ended up after scamming a government casino out of a fortune. A small, fortified town stands against the nonstop natural onslaught, and its people are the descendants of hardened survivors. But there are some who exist outside the city—the &“grubbers,&” humans living in harmony with the nightmarish surroundings who share a mutual hatred with the technologically superior city dwellers. These people fascinate Jason because they share his psionic abilities. And with their help he soon realizes that Pyrrus is more than just a planet. It&’s alive. It&’s intelligent. And it&’s angry. From the legendary author whose novel Make Room! Make Room! was the basis for the film Soylent Green, Deathworld is &“an action story with a built-in mystery&” (Analog). This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Deathworld 2
by Harry HarrisonJason dinAlt has been kidnapped and is being returned to the planet Cassylia to stand trial for his crimes. But en route the space ship he is on crash lands on a planet inhabited by men who have lost much of their technology. It is up to Jason to find a way to stay alive and get off planet. Can he succeed in leaving this new Deathworld?
Deathworld Three: Deathworld Book 3 (Gateway Essentials #82)
by Harry HarrisonThe planet was called Felicity. The name was a joke, except for those compelled to settle there. Inhabiting it were beings bred for thousands of years for a single purpose: to attack and kill.Jason knew this. But he also knew the planet on which he lived was moving towards certain disaster. And Felicity was the only spot in the universe where he and his companions could survive. He thought he had worked out the perfect plan. But what awaited him on Felicity went far beyond his wildest imagining.
Deathworld Two: Deathworld Book 2 (Gateway Essentials #83)
by Harry HarrisonThe planet was unknown¿ a savagely primitive place where every man had to kill every other man - or live as a slave.The inhabitants lived in the early Bronze Age one minute, and in the early Machine Age the next. Technology had degenerated into a number of mysteries jealously guarded by separate brotherhoods.But Jason dinAlt was a gambler. He realised that if he was ever going to get a winning hand in this game, the brotherhoods would need a shuffle¿
The Deavys
by Alan Dean FosterWhen the Truth is stolen, it's up to the Deavy quartet to get it back For any normal teenage boy, having two and a half younger sisters would be enough to deal with. But Simwan Deavy's life isn't normal. His family is non-Ord--short for "non-Ordinary"--which means that at school, he and his sisters learn hexing and enchanting along with history and math. It also means they have a ghost for an uncle and a cat who talks. Still, everything is going well for Simwan--until a bottle of Truth is stolen from the local pharmacy. Now the Deavys' favorite woods are under threat from development; their mother, whose life depends on the Truth, is growing weaker; and the world as they know it might never be the same. With the help of their cat, Pithfwid, the Deavys track the loathsome, horrible Crub to his lair in New York City. But the Crub has laid traps, turning a dangerous city into a deadly one. To succeed at their mission, the Deavys will have to stick together--or the Truth may be lost forever.
The Debacle
by Émile ZolaConservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to understand one other. Forging a profound friendship, they must struggle together to endure a disorganised and brutal war, the savage destruction of France's Second Empire and the fall of Napoleon III. One of the greatest of all war novels, The Debacle is the nineteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A forceful and deeply moving tale of close friendship, it is also a fascinating chronicle of the events that were to lead, in the words of Zola himself, to 'the murder of a nation'.
Débâcle et Espoir d'une République
by Zakaria GuenganeDébâcle et Espoir d'une République est un roman décrivant un pays multiethnique déchiré d'une part par l'influence et l'ingérence constante de l'ancienne puissance coloniale et d'autre part par la corruption, la tyrannie et des incessants coups d'Etat militaires. C'était aussi un pays riche par ses hommes et ses potentialités naturelles. Mais l'accaparement de ces ressources par le Fitanglepobel, l'ancienne métropole, les dérives politiques de ses valets locaux finiront par pousser le peuple à un sursaut émancipateur. Pour arriver à ce niveau, il a fallu le travail d'un intrépide et vaillant homme : Même si jusqu'à sa mort suspecte la corruption et la pure négation des droits de l'homme n'ont pas fondamentalement cessé, il reste que sa lutte et les mouvements subséquents à son assassinat ont très positivement impacté le quotidien de son peuple. Mais dans un pays où la priorité est d'affamer en se gavant, appauvrir en s'enrichissant, vivre en tuant ; dans un pays dominé par l'impérialisme fitanglepobelien, pour rêver atteindre le développement, les seules conditions qu'il faut demeurent l'organisation des masses et la lutte sans merci. Le peuple de la République Démocratique de Gangla a compris cela. Comme un seul homme, il a mis fin au cycle infernal de coups d'Etat à travers une révolution réussie.
Debaixo do Arco-Íris: Uma comédia romântica LGBT
by Manuel Tristante Mariana Baroni"Às vezes você só precisa sair para saber quem realmente é." Alejandro é um garoto alegre, amante da leitura e poeta. Criado em uma cidade pequena onde a maioria dos garotos da sua idade tem outros hobbies e o normal é já ter uma namorada antes dos dezoito, ele sempre sentiu que não se encaixava bem por ser diferente dos outros. Sua vida muda radicalmente quando abandona sua cidade natal para começar seu primeiro ano na universidade em outra cidade. Apesar do otimismo em sua chegada, o destino não tardará em colocá-lo à prova. Nem tudo serão alegrias e sua vida se transformará em uma porção de dúvidas, para as quais só poderá encontrar respostas colocando em xeque tudo aquilo em que acreditava até então. "A razão não entende sentimentos. Um romance apaixonante do início ao fim." Patricia Gómez Martín — Escritora
Debaixo do mesmo céu
by Erika Boyer C. M. CostaAlejandro não teve outra escolha senão seguir seus pais que decidiram deixar a Espanha para se instalar em França. Taciturno e introvertido, ele tem medo de não conseguir encontrar seu lugar neste novo ambiente e se preocupa de que suas diferenças o impeçam de fazer amigos. Mas seus medos morrem quando ele encontra seu vizinho, Hugo. Jovial e caloroso, este último gosta do sotaque hispânico do garoto que mora em frente, bem como do nome dele e de seus incríveis cabelos compridos. Então, tão rápido quanto a inocência de sua idade jovem permite, as duas crianças fazem amizade uma com a outra. Sob os céus da Ville d’Hiver, Alejandro e Hugo se tornarão homens. Eles irão descobrir a amizade e o amor, e abraçarão a vida para entender o seu verdadeiro sentido.
Debajo de los castaños (Constanza #Volumen 1)
by Cristina CuestaA veces, amar no es suficiente. Una historia de búsquedas del pasado, de volver a empezar y de amor en todas sus formas. Desde que de niña quedó huérfana tras el fatídico accidente de sus padres, Constanza y su abuela son inseparables. Con el correr de los años, y ante su casamiento fallido, su yaya le recomienda visitar en Galicia su amada aldea, llamada Banga, por lo que Constanza cruzará el Atlántico en busca de un renacer personal para sanar sus heridas. Al llegar, todo le parecerá conocido: el paisaje, la comida, las leyendas y los olores de esa tierra tantas veces descrita por su abuela. Allí Constanza no solo encontrará sus raíces, sino también el amor, vestido de varias formas. El mismo le será revelado junto con su verdadera historia familiar. Constanza es la voz de los que provienen de tierras lejanas, esla embajadora de la nostalgia del terruño que quedó atrás. Y esto la marcará para siempre en un viaje sin retorno.
Debajo de su piel: Un romance paranormal y una fantasía urbana
by Margo Bond CollinsLindi Parker trabaja duro para ser humana, no es una tarea fácil para una cambiaformas serpiente. Ella tiene suerte de que él sea encantador. Él tiene suerte de que ella no muerda. Mucho... Lindi Parker trabaja duro para ser humana, no es una tarea fácil para una cambiaformas serpiente. No tiene ningún deseo de buscar a otros como ella, hasta que un nuevo caso lo cambia todo. Cuando Lindi se entera de que no es la única cambiaformas del mundo, también se da cuenta de que podría ser la siguiente en la lista de un asesino. Para salvarse a sí misma ya los niños maltratados con los que trabaja, tendrá que trabajar en equipo con el Dr. Kade Nevala, un miembro de la tribu cambiaforma responsable de erradicar a los hombres serpiente, y el hombre más atractivo que Lindi haya conocido. Aún más aterrador, tendrá que abrazar su lado de serpiente, una elección que tiene enormes consecuencias para Lindi y para todos los que la rodean.
Debatable Space
by Philip PalmerFlanagan (who is, for want of a better word, a pirate) has a plan. It seems relatively simple: kidnap Lena , the Cheo's daughter, demand a vast ransom for her safe return, sit back and wait. Only the Cheo, despotic ruler of the known universe, isn't playing ball. Flanagan and his crew have seen this before, of course, but since they've learned a few tricks from the bad old days and since they know something about Lena that should make the plan foolproof, the Cheo's defiance is a major setback. It is a situation that calls for extreme measures. Luckily, Flanagan has considerable experience in this area . . .
Debatable Space
by Philip PalmerFlanagan (who is, for want of a better word, a pirate) has a plan. It seems relatively simple: kidnap Lena, the Cheo's daughter, demand a vast ransom for her safe return, sit back and wait. Only the Cheo, despotic ruler of the known universe, isn't playing ball.Flanagan and his crew have seen this before, of course, but since they've learned a few tricks from the bad old days (being particularly bad if you happen to have been one of the myriad sons or daughters the Cheo let die rather than give in to blackmail) and since they know something about Lena that should make the plan foolproof, the Cheo's defiance is a major setback. It is a situation that calls for extreme measures. Luckily, Flanagan has considerable experience in this area. . .
Debates in Translation Studies
by Susan Bassnett David JohnstonTranslation Studies has been an extraordinary success story which grew out of the work of a small group of international scholars in the 1970s and has become a global phenomenon. As the field has rapidly expanded, it has also diversified. This collection of essays, by world-leading translation specialists, sheds light on some of the major shifts in thinking about translation that are taking place today.The authors here engage with the most contentious issues within translation studies and cover topics ranging from examining the scope for machine and human translation to develop together, to addressing the role of translation in the age of the Anthropocene and considering how we prepare translators for the complexities of contemporary communication.Written in an accessible and engaging style and with an emphasis on challenging orthodoxies and encouraging critical thinking, this is essential reading for all advanced students of translation studies and literature in translation.
Debating Darcy
by Sayantani DasGuptaIt is a truth universally acknowledged that Leela Bose plays to win. <P><P> A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing the competition, all while wearing a smile. But when she meets the incorrigible Firoze Darcy, a debater from an elitist private school, Leela can’t stand him. Unfortunately, he’ll be competing in the state league, so their paths are set to collide. <P><P> But why attempt to tolerate Firoze when Leela can one-up him? The situation is more complicated than Leela anticipated, though, and her participation in the tournament reveals that she might have tragically misjudged the debaters -- including Firoze Darcy -- and more than just her own winning streak is at stake...her heart is, too. Debating Darcy is bestselling author Sayantani DasGupta’s reinterpretation of beloved classic Pride and Prejudice -- imaginative, hilarious, thought-provoking, and truly reflective of the complex, diverse world of American high school culture.
Debating Darcy
by Sayantani DasGuptaThis Pride & Prejudice retelling brings New York Times bestselling Sayantani DasGupta’s trademark wit and insight to her bright and funny YA debut!It is a truth universally acknowledged that Leela Bose plays to win.A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing the competition, all while wearing a smile. But when she meets the incorrigible Firoze Darcy, a debater from an elitist private school, Leela can’t stand him. Unfortunately, he’ll be competing in the state league, so their paths are set to collide. But why attempt to tolerate Firoze when Leela can one-up him? The situation is more complicated than Leela anticipated, though, and her participation in the tournament reveals that she might have tragically misjudged the debaters -- including Firoze Darcy -- and more than just her own winning streak is at stake…her heart is, too. Debating Darcy is bestselling author Sayantani DasGupta’s reinterpretation of beloved classic Pride and Prejudice -- imaginative, hilarious, thought-provoking, and truly reflective of the complex, diverse world of American high school culture.
Debating Orientalism
by Ziad Elmarsafy Anna Bernard David AttwellEdward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy.
Debating the 'Post' Condition in India: Critical Vernaculars, Unauthorized Modernities, Post-Colonial Contentions
by Makarand R. ParanjapeHow was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history of its reception and response. Tracing independent India’s engagement with Western critical theory, Paranjape outlines both its past and ‘post’. The book explores the discursive trajectories of post-modernism, post-colonialism, post-Marxism, post-nationalism, post-feminism, post-secularism — the relations that mediate them — as well as interprets, in the light of these discussions, core tenets of Indian philosophical thought. Paranjape argues that India’s response to the modernist project is neither submission, willing or reluctant, nor repudiation, intentional or forced; rather India’s ‘modernity’ is ‘unauthorized’, different, subversive, alter-native and alter-modern. The book makes the case for a new integrative hermeneutics, the idea of the indigenous ‘critical vernacular’, and presents a radical shift in the understanding of svaraj (beyond decolonisation and nationalism) to express transformations at both personal and political levels. A key intervention in Indian critical theory, this volume will interest researchers and scholars of literature, philosophy, political theory, culture studies and postcolonial studies.
Debating the Roman de la Rose: A Critical Anthology (Routledge Medieval Texts)
by Christine McwebbAround the year 1400, the poet Christine de Pizan initiated a public debate in France over the literary "truth" and merit of the Roman of the Rose, perhaps the most renowned work of the French Middle Ages. She argued against what she considered to be misrepresentations of female virtue and vice in the Rose. Her bold objections aroused the support and opposition of some of the period’s most famous intellectuals, notable Jean Gerson, whose sermons on the subject are important literary documents. "The Quarrel of the Rose" is the name given by modern scholars to the collection of these and other documents, including both poetry and letters, that offer a vivid account of this important controversy. As the first dual-language version of the "Quarrel" documents, this volume will be of great interest to medievalists and an ideal addition to the Routledge Medieval Texts series. Along with translations of the actual debate epistles, the volume includes several relevant passages from the Romance of the Rose, as well as a chronology of events and ample biography of source materials.
Debating the Slave Trade: Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759–1815 (Ashgate Ser. In Nineteenth-century Transatlantic Studies)
by Srividhya SwaminathanHow did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Framing them as competing narratives engaged in defining the nature of the Briton, Swaminathan reads the arguments of pro- and anti-abolitionists as a series of dialogues among diverse groups at the center and peripheries of the empire. Arguing that neither side emerged triumphant, Swaminathan suggests that the Briton who emerged from these debates represented a synthesis of arguments, and that the debates to abolish the slave trade are marked by rhetorical transformations defining the image of the Briton as one that led naturally to nineteenth-century imperialism and a sense of global superiority. Because the slave-trade debates were waged openly in print rather than behind the closed doors of Parliament, they exerted a singular influence on the British public. At their height, between 1788 and 1793, publications numbered in the hundreds, spanned every genre, and circulated throughout the empire. Among the voices represented are writers from both sides of the Atlantic in dialogue with one another, such as key African authors like Ignatius Sancho, Phillis Wheatley, and Olaudah Equiano; West India planters and merchants; and Quaker activist Anthony Benezet. Throughout, Swaminathan offers fresh and nuanced readings that eschew the view that the abolition of the slave trade was inevitable or that the ultimate defeat of pro-slavery advocates was absolute.
Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore
by Walter MosleyIn this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub. Electrocuted. With another woman in there with him. Debbie decides she just isn't going to "do it anymore." But executing her exit strategy from the porn world is a wrenching and far from simple process. Millions of men (and no doubt many women) have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare--she of the blond wig and blue contacts-"do it" on television and computer screens every which way with every combination of partners the mind of man can imagine. But one day an unexpected and thunderous on-set orgasm catches Debbie unawares, and when she returns to the mansion she shares with her husband, insatiable former porn star and "film producer" Theon Pinkney, she discovers that he's died in a case of hot tub electrocution, "auditioning" an aspiring "starlet." Burdened with massive debts that her husband incurred, and which various L.A. heavies want to collect on, Debbie must reckon with a life spent in the peculiar subculture of the pornography industry and her estrangement from her family and the child she had to give up. She's done with porn, but her options for what might come next include the possibility of suicide. Debbie . . . is a portrait of a ransacked but resilient soul in search of salvation and a cure for grief.
Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel
by Walter MosleyIn this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub. Electrocuted. With another woman in there with him. Debbie decides she just isn't going to "do it anymore." But executing her exit strategy from the porn world is a wrenching and far from simple process. Millions of men (and no doubt many women) have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare—she of the blond wig and blue contacts-"do it" on television and computer screens every which way with every combination of partners the mind of man can imagine. But one day an unexpected and thunderous on-set orgasm catches Debbie unawares, and when she returns to the mansion she shares with her husband, insatiable former porn star and "film producer" Theon Pinkney, she discovers that he's died in a case of hot tub electrocution, "auditioning" an aspiring "starlet." Burdened with massive debts that her husband incurred, and which various L.A. heavies want to collect on, Debbie must reckon with a life spent in the peculiar subculture of the pornography industry and her estrangement from her family and the child she had to give up. She's done with porn, but her options for what might come next include the possibility of suicide. Debbie . . . is a portrait of a ransacked but resilient soul in search of salvation and a cure for grief.
Debbie Harry Sings in French
by Meagan BrothersWhen Johnny gets out of court-mandated rehab and his mother sends him to live with his uncle in North Carolina, he meets Maria, who seems to understand his fascination with the new wave band Blondie, and he learns about his deceased father's youthful forays into glam rock, all of which gives him perspective on himself, his past, and his current life.